It's just these transportation numbers. I have to spin pretty hard to make it stick.

It's just these transportation numbers. I'm gonna have to spin pretty hard to make it stick.

The numbers transported across the Atlantic on those fateful journeys are in doubt.

Safmarine has been systematically transporting coltan for a number of years from Dar es Salaam.

These statistics measure units of service throughout a wide range of services (namely, number of pouch bags delivered, number of pieces of correspondence processed, number of staff whose household items have been transported, number of staff trained in language classes, number of staff processed in payroll etc.).

In 2006-2007, amendments to 20 legal transport instruments and a number of recommendations were adopted.

For 2000, the number of detainees was estimated at 40 but the actual number was 35, and it was assumed that 1,425 detainees would be transported but the actual number transported was 996 (A/56/501, annex I).

Although it is difficult to exercise proper control over exports with the resources currently available, the customs authorities apply a selective risk-management system using certain intelligent criteria: container number; transport type, number and medium; identity and period of operation of importer/exporter; agents or brokers; country of origin/destination; type of goods; details of triangulation arrangements, etc.

In the absence of an international regime that is both widely acceptable and adequately addresses the challenges of modern transport, a number of countries have opted for unilateral measures.

In the area of ground transportation, the number of traffic accidents involving UNFICYP personnel was reduced from seven accidents per month in 2006/07 to six accidents per month in 2007/08.